Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and a place to stay

Re:Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and... by arianvanp on Monday August 10, 2015 @03:37AM (#10033177)

Personally, I'd go to the European Union. There are a few very good reasons:

- Once you get citizenship in one country, you can freely work on any of the other countries, or move there and live there. Creating a much bigger area of opportunity for jobs. You could have citizenship in France, and work at a cool startup in Amsterdam

- Though it causes a lot of political instability currently (immigrants constantly drowning in the ocean, trying to get across), getting a visa here isn't that hard, especially when you're from a conflict zone and can show you have a good chance to get a job.

- Europe is pretty awesome.

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Re:Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and... by TeMPOraL on Monday August 10, 2015 @07:15AM (#10033826)

I agree with your points, but one small nitpick: the US is almost as big as the whole EU - 300M vs. 500M citizens. So it's not much larger area of opportunity, just a little bit larger.

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Re:Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and... by corford on Monday August 10, 2015 @10:16AM (#10034723)

167% the size of the US is more than a little bit, non?

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Re:Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and... by mcv on Monday August 10, 2015 @10:28AM (#10034796)

Same order of magnitude. EU and US each have their pros and cons. But the EU is absolutely worth considering.

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Re:Ask HN: I will help your startup in exchange for food and... by t0rb3n on Monday August 10, 2015 @10:46AM (#10034941)

Also there is no language barrier in the US.

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